Liba Taub

Liba Taub (born 1954) is an American historian of science, who was Curator and Director of the Whipple Museum at the University of Cambridge from 1995 to 2022.

She became a Fellow of Newnham College in 1996 and serves as a Professor of History and the Philosophy of Science.

[4] She has authored books such as Ptolemy’s Universe: The Natural Philosophical and Ethical Foundations of Ptolemy’s Astronomy (1993), Ancient Meteorology (2003), and Aetna and the Moon: Explaining Nature in Ancient Greece and Rome (2008).

[3] Taub retired as Curator and Director of the Whipple Museum in 2022, succeeded by Dr Joshua Nall, and was appointed to the honorary role of the museum's Director of Research.

Essays in Ancient Science and its Reception in Honour of Liba Taub was edited by Laurence Totelin and Emma Perkins, and published by De Gruyter.